Generative AI’s Impact on Language and Cognition: What’s left for us to study?

Activity: Talk or presentationInvited talk

Description

In an era of rapid developments in genAI and digital technology, many fields of research and education may soon become obsolete or may disappear altogether. Language and cognition researchers face the same challenges and need to seize new opportunities. In linguistics and cognitive science more broadly, we must combine the latest techniques and emerging technologies to study the learning, processing, and representation of native and non-native languages. For example, we can use neurocomputational theories to study individual differences in processing; we can build models that simulate human developmental processes and human-like representations; and we can study how human learners, compared with AI models, more effectively integrate multimodal information in social interactive contexts, and how such interactive processes enable some to learn more effectively than others. To achieve these goals, we need to collect and use high-quality domain-specific data (unlike what genAI models do), linguistic and non-linguistic processing data, and real-time multimodal learning data. We can also leverage genAI to develop evidence-based, personalized, pedagogical designs for language learning, processing, and representation.
Period12 Apr 202513 Apr 2025
Event title2nd Language Cognition and Development Roundtable Forum at Zhejiang University
Event typeForum/Symposium
LocationHangzhou, ChinaShow on map
Degree of RecognitionNational

Keywords

  • Language Cognition and Development